What Uber is achieving in the transportation sector is fascinating for most of us. Some are angered by the approach (surge pricing) and the implications for regulated businesses, but most seem intrigued. At CGAP, we want to understand what Uber and other socially interactive business models could mean for financial inclusion.Leveraging social supply and demand in real time This is arguably the foundation of Uber’s business model – leveraging existing underutilized social capacity to meet the transport needs of society, by matching supply and demand in real time.
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The ‘Uberification’ of Financial Inclusion
Mar 30, 2015